Insufficient upstream supply affects LED backlight shipments

With LED backlight technology popularization in the field of LCD TV, more and more manufacturers began to introduce LED backlight LCD TV, LCD TV and users in the purchase will be more with the LED backlight technology model. In fact, from a technical point of view, LED backlight has a better display effect and better power consumption control, so the popularity of LED backlight LCD TV is the trend.

The latest news from the Taiwan media, panel makers AUO latest plan shows, the manufacturers will be in the third quarter of this year will increase the monthly shipments to 800 thousand pieces of LED backlight LCD TV panel, and in the fourth quarter of this year will be the LED backlight LCD TV panel shipments up to 1 million 200 thousand months, and the current LED backlit LCD TV panel AUO only monthly shipments of 400 thousand, capacity expansion plan that is clearly aimed at the rapid development of LED backlight LCD TV market at present, and hope that through higher capacity to seize more market share.

In fact, plans to increase the capacity of the panel manufacturers not only rival AUO, CMO also plans in the third quarter of this year monthly shipments of LED backlight LCD TV panel from 100 thousand to the current increase to 300 thousand to 400 thousand, while the LED backlit LCD TV panel to the fourth quarter of this year, shipments will increase to about 1 million pieces.

Industry sources, due to the LED chip and other components in short supply, this year the overall LED backlight LCD TV shipments will be affected, is expected this year about LED backlight LCD TV LCD TV shipments will account for 20% of total shipments, about 30 million units to 40 million units.